Snowyowl comments on Causal Universes - Less Wrong

60 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 29 November 2012 04:08AM

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Comment author: Snowyowl 29 November 2012 08:14:45AM 7 points [-]

You make a surprisingly convincing argument for people not being real.

Comment author: Nornagest 29 November 2012 08:23:07AM 3 points [-]

Depends what you mean by "people", and what you mean by "real", really.

Comment author: Bugmaster 29 November 2012 08:29:44AM 2 points [-]

I could apply the same argument to rocks, or stars, or any other physical object. They can be encoded as bit strings, too -- well, at least hypothetically speaking.